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===by Marcus Tullius Cicero===
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero] (106 BCE-43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, politician, orator and writer.<ref>''Britannica Concise Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/ebconcise/cicero_marcus_tullius Cicero, Marcus Tullius]," accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> He distinguished himself in the practice of law before entering politics and winning a consulship in 63 BCE.<ref>Ibid.</ref> As head of the Senate, Cicero thwarted the Catilinarian conspiracy to seize control of the government and struggled to uphold republican ideals amidst the civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Caesar’s rise to power ended Cicero's political career, and he devoted himself to writing, producing such works as ''Consolatio'', ''Hortensius'', ''De Natura Deorum''' and the ''Tusculan Disputations''.<ref>''Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/cwclassical/cicero_marcus_tullius_106_43_b_c_e "CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.E.)]," accessed October 9, 2013.</ref> He was executed at the behest of Mark Antony, whom Cicero had criticized publicly when Octavian rose to power.<ref>''Philip's Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://www.credoreference.com/entry/philipency/cicero_marcus_tullius Cicero, Marcus Tullius]," accessed October 9, 2013.</ref><br />
[[File:CiceroCiceronisOperaCumDelectu1740v1Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one. Engraving by [[wikipedia:Pierre Soubeyan|Pierre Soubeyan]].</center>]]

Cicero is considered the foremost Roman orator. His style, which became known as Ciceronian rhetoric, was the primary rhetorical model for centuries.<ref>''Britannica Concise Encyclopedia'', s. v. "Cicero, Marcus Tullius."</ref> Among his greatest works are his ''Catilinarian'' orations, the ''Phillipics'' delivered against Mark Antony, and his political works ''De Legibus'', ''De Re Publica'' and ''De Oratore''.<ref>''Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy'', s. v. "CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.E.)."</ref> Cicero’s primary contribution to philosophy was bringing Greek ideas into Latin, allowing Rome to develop its own philosophical traditions.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He had a lasting impact on Renaissance and early modern thinkers, including Locke, Montesquieu and Hume.<ref>Walter Nicgorski, "[http://www.nlnrac.org/classical/cicero "Cicero and the Natural Law]," ''Natural Law, Natural Rights and American Constitutionalism'' (National Endowment for the Humanities, n.d.), accessed Oct. 9, 2013.</ref> Cicero’s conception of rationally-discernible natural law influenced America’s founders, including John Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Jefferson explicitly named him as helping establish a notion of “public right” that influenced the [[Declaration of Independence]] and the Revolution.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Ciceronis opera. notis varior. 9.v. 4to." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Ogilvie]], the tutor of Jefferson's grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the third edition (1758) based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 5:165 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648133;view=1up;seq=177 [no.4913]].</ref>   [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on January 28, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing lists the 1740-1742 edition as the "probable" edition and notes "No other edition of Cicero in nine volumes which matches the title has been located." 

The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the 1740-1742 edition of ''M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum''.
[[File:CiceroCiceronisOperaCumDelectu1740v1Bookplate.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<center>Bookplate of [[wikipedia:Christian Gottlieb Jöcher|Christian Gottlieb Jöcher]], front pastedown, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary polished calf, spines feature gilt labels and decorative gilt compartments divided by gilt raised bands. Volume one includes the engraved bookplate of "CHR: GOT. IOCHERI" on the front pastedown: [[wikipedia:Christian Gottlieb Jöcher|Christian Gottlieb Jöcher]], the German librarian and lexicographer.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72177720300915489 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991033860244203196 William & Mary's online catalog].

==Citations from Wythe's Reports==
===''[[Beverley v. Rennolds]]''===

Wythe quotes a passage from the oration "Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino"<ref>Cic. S. Rosc. 1. Cicero made this oration in defense of [[wikipedia:Sextus Roscius|Sextus Roscius of Ameria]] at his trial for patricide. Wythe refers to and quotes from the story of [[wikipedia:Gaius Flavius Fimbria|Gaius Flavius Fimbria]] and [[wikipedia:Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex|Quintus Mucius Scaevola]]. Fimbria attempted to murder Scaevola at the funeral of [[wikipedia:Gaius Marius|Gaius Marius]]. When Scaevola survived, Fimbria "launched a prosecution against him" on charges that do not survive. Richard A. Bauman, ''Lawyers in Roman Republican Politics'' (Munchen: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1983): 411-412.</ref> in ''Beverley v. Rennolds'', Wythe 121 (1791),<ref>George Wythe, ''[[Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery (1852)|Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery with Remarks upon Decrees by the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions]],'' 2nd ed., ed. B.B. Minor (Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1852): 121.</ref> a case discussing whether a court of equity could nullify an arbitrator's award based on a void contract. The quotation appears in Wythe's footnote "(b)" on page 122:
<blockquote>
(b) The injury for which Hipkins demanded reparation was that Beverley endeavoured to escape the ruin which the art of Hipkins was contriving. those, who could approve such a demand, perhaps would have thought the demand of Fimbria plausible, who having wounded Scaevola, whom he intended to slay, and finding the wound not mortal, cited him, after he recovered to appear before the judges, and being required to state the cause of his complaint against Scaevola, answered <span style="color: #006600;">''quod non totum telum corpore recepisset''</span>. Cic. ora. pro S. Roscio Amer.<ref>Translation: "because he did not receive the whole weapon into his body." </ref> </blockquote>

Wythe owned two Latin sets of Cicero's works: this title, ''M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum'', and ''[[M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae Supersunt Omnia]]''. Both sets include "Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino."<ref>See "Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=E84DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA57 ''M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae Supersunt Omnia''] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=8ptoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62  ''M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum''].</ref>

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*''[[M.T. Ciceronis Orationes Quaedam Selectae]]''
*''[[M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae Supersunt Omnia|M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae Supersunt Omnia: ad Fidem Optimarum Editionum Diligenter Expressa]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

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